Hudud, Is It Applicable or Petrifiying?

Hudud, Is It Applicable or Petrifiying?

Hudud is man-made law derived from Quran and Hadith. Husam Musa said, PAS wanted to implement hudud, but he quickly retracted his words when Lim Kit Siang asked, ‘What hudud?‘. And Anwar remain lost in his quest to conquer the PM seat.

I’m writing today NOT to talk about the edgy by-election at Kuala Terengganu, but Hudud itself. Is it necessary?

With the alarming rate of crime No, crime alone is alarming. We don’t need statistics to prove that it’s still bearable. Robbery, grand theft, rape, murder, kidnap or infidel, as long as it brings misfortune, it’s bad.

In the modern world, hudud is seen as barbaric and immoral. While I agree with that, let’s not overlook some of these points.

Save Your Money

Guilty criminal lives with tax payer money.We’d tighten our belts to feed them, when we can just chop off his hand. It is inhumane, but we can use that money for the greater goods, like feed the orphans.

So how much are we talking about?
RM10 per day x 365 days x 25years = RM 91,250!

Isn’t that a sick figure? And I just assumed that RM10 per day per head, not to mention the guards, logistic, electricity. Still think they deserved a slice of our hard earn tax?

Eye for an Eye

Under Qisas, if you murder someone, you’ll be sentence to death. Just perfect. It’ll definitely send the message up to your spine.

For Peace of Mind

Have you ever been to Arab? Well, when it’s time to pray, they left everything behind, open. As “3rd world” as they can be, they don’t steal things.

Few months ago, a Porsche Cayenne was robbed from the driver while waiting for his boss. A parang on his neck, he had to give in. Although it’s insured, all they got was the depreciated value, that’s like 70% of it’s price.

Few weeks ago, some big-shot was robbed in the comfort of his own house. He got stitches, a direct result of being lashed with a parang.

If we implemented hudud, I’m sure non of these would happen.

The Pious Four

Under hudud, 4 witness must come forward to testify the crime. Not just a normal person, but someone with a good, clean and unbiased background. But I’m sure that wouldn’t be a problem, we have CCTVs nowadays.

Non-muslim

Hudud is ONLY for muslim. To some extend, I wish everyone is governed by it. But I see more non-muslims are being anal about it. If you did nothing wrong, why are you so scared?

I don’t get it why some people keep on having negative thought on Hudud thingy. Take Arab Saudi as an example. They have successfully reduced their crime rate by just implementing Hudud (their crime rate is very low if compared to our country). This is not like what most people tend to think where they have the idea that by implementing Hudud, there will be more OKU in our country. That is gravely wrong. If that is true, sure BBC will have a headline read “Arab Saudi: The highest number of OKU ever”.

Ala.. why so afraid if we are against crime kan? Unless those people are into bribery stuff, for sure la takut. I think orang biasa macam kita ni takde hal la dengan Hudud.

IMHO,most of our people still don’t understand the meaning of hudud and way to implement it. All they do understand is that we have to cut off the head when they commited in murder or some sort like that. But Allah has promised that, the bad deeds can’t be stopped unless Allah’s Law aka Hudud is implemented. It is specified to Moslems only as for the non-Moslems the law is different as far as i’m concern.. 😳

jipo

The ordinance has been criticized as leading to “hundreds of incidents where a woman subjected to rape, or even gang rape, was eventually accused of Zina” and incarcerated,and defended as punishment ordained by God and victim of “extremely unjust propaganda”

According to a report by Pakistan National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) “an estimated 80% of women” in jail in 2003 were there as because “they had failed to prove rape charges and were consequently convicted of adultery.

Read about that too when I was doing my umrah. This worries me too. But I believe we can do something about that. Like, dont walk in dark empty alley etc. Or probably a lighter punishment/consideration if rape victim failed to prove anything.

jill

5 Jan 2009

If the law is going to be implemented, will it be implemented as a whole?

If it is, there’s a high possibility that more than half of the Muslim population in Malaysia is going against it. Sebab apparently, pre-marital sex, consuming alcohol and whatnot dah jadi norm especially dekat urban areas.

Why don’t you vote and see how many voted Yes instead of No. Most Malay-Muslim would vote Yes.

tasuke

5 Jan 2009

“Most Malay-Muslim would voted for Yes” nice one.im more interested on the term Malay-Muslim LOL.According to perlembagaan persekutuan Islam included in the definition of Malay.That to me also must be ammended.And since you mentioned about Islamic law bound only for Muslims,let’s consider how many “Muslims-the one who drink,f.n.u.c.k(fornication not under the consent of the king),adultery,penyamun tegar,penagih tegar,penjudi tegar etc” would gladly say we are no more muslim after the Islamic Law is made legitimate.Talk about FMEA(Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) huh…(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_mode_and_effects_analysis). So friends,lets study all the impact if we managed to change the Perlembagaan Persekutuan someday.

Let’s look it from another point of view.Hudud, Qisas and Takzir, these 3 items were sent directly from Allah upon us ‘coz He is our creator.Shouldn’t the creator Himself must know in every single way how it’s creation will act in nature?While Hudud and Qisas are bound with stern sentences upon the guilty ones..Takzir are the rules made for more up-to-date crimes with humanly designed sentences,in a way,we could say the Law itself is actually advanced compared with civil law.Who says its barbaric then?The crime of lust and blood is of course the oldest crime ever known to humans,ever heard of Eve’s eating the Forbidden Fruit?Ever heard of 1st murder between Qabil and Habil?thus Hudud is for lust(sex,theft etc),Qisas is for murder.Takzir is for newly created crime born from human creativity assisted by desire and the devil.Cast your votes readers :).

While I agree we should adopt Hudud 100%, I somehow find it a bit frustrating when it comes to protecting a woman’s dignity.

Let’s say a woman was raped. She brought him to court but failed to present concrete evidence. She’s then charged under Qazaf and adultery. Of course, we dont see any logic in that. But to bank our trust on Islam itself?

So you are telling me, if a rape victim cant prove any evidence, she might as well forget that she’s being raped? Gosh..